340 TRANSACTIONS OF ROYAL SCOTTISH ARBORICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
39. CoxrorD PLANTATION. 
Considering the poverty of the soil, this is a very satisfactory 
wood, and consists of fine old Scots fir, oak, beech, ete., and in a 
few places a little thinning would be beneficial. The Scots fir is in 
large fine lengths of first-rate quality, and very valuable for building 
and many other purposes. As trees thrive so well on this poor 
soil, it would be a great improvement, and a highly remunerative 
investment, to plant extensively in this district. As there is so 
much oak and other hardwood plantations on the estate already, 
and no young fir woods of any extent, it would be advisable to 
plant here only the fir tribe, introducing among them a fair 
sprinkling of the most suitable of the newer conifers. 
Judging from this fine old plantation, it is quite clear that the 
profits of planting such land would be great. Pleasure alone may 
satiate ; but when pleasure is combined with profit, their union 
invariably affords a lasting source of gratification to the happy 
possessor, 
